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Monday, June 19, 2017

Middle Eastern crime syndicates have established themselves across
Germany, where they engage in racketeering, extortion, money laundering,
pimping and trafficking in humans, weapons and drugs.

Observers have surmised that
the real reason for the judge's leniency was that he feared his family
might be subjected to retribution from the clan.

"In their concept of masculinity, only power and force matter; if
someone is humane and civil, this is considered a weakness. In clan
structures, in tribal culture everywhere in the world, ethics are
confined to the clan itself. Everything outside the clan is enemy
territory." — Ralph Ghadban, Lebanese-German political scientist and
leading expert on Middle Eastern clans in Germany.

"The state promotes organized crime with taxpayer money." — Tom Schreiber, a member of the Berlin House of Deputies.

A court in Hanover has handed suspended sentences to six members of a
Kurdish clan who seriously wounded two dozen police officers during a
violent rampage in Hameln. The court's ruling was greeted with anger and
derision by police who said it is yet another example of the laxity of
Germany's politically correct judicial system.

The case
goes back to January 2014, when a 26-year-old clan member, arrested for
robbery, tried to escape from the magistrate's office by jumping out of
a seventh-floor courtroom window. The suspect was taken to the
hospital, where he died. Members of his clan subsequently ransacked the
hospital, as well as the court, and attacked police with rocks and other
projectiles; 24 police officers and six paramedics were injured.

The judge said he was lenient because the defendants witnessed the
death of the 26-year-old and were traumatized. The judge also revealed
that he had reached a deal with the clan, which among other effects
prevented police from testifying in court.

Dietmar Schilff, chairman of the GdP police union in Lower Saxony,
said that the ruling had left many police officers shaking their heads
in disbelief: "All police forces expect protection and support from the
state." He added:

"If we want to protect those who ensure public security,
it must be clear that anyone who attacks police officers attacks the
state — and has to fear appropriate consequences. It does not matter
from which milieu the perpetrators come."

Observers have surmised that the real reason for the judge's leniency
was that he feared his family might be subjected to retribution from
the clan.

Middle Eastern crime syndicates have established themselves across
Germany, where they engage in racketeering, extortion, money laundering,
pimping and trafficking in humans, weapons and drugs.

The syndicates, which are run by large clans with origins in Lebanon,
Turkey, Syria, among other places, operate with virtual impunity
because German judges and prosecutors are unable or unwilling to stop
them.

The clans — some of which migrated to Germany during Lebanon's
1975-1990 civil war and have grown to thousands of members — now control
large swathes of German cities and towns — areas that are effectively
lawless and which German police increasingly fear to approach.

Ralph Ghadban, a Lebanese-German political scientist and a leading expert on Middle Eastern clans in Germany, said
that the Hanover ruling was a massive failure of the German judicial
system. He added that the only way for Germany to achieve control over
the clans is to destroy them:

"In their concept of masculinity, only power and force
matter; if someone is humane and civil, this is considered a weakness.
In clan structures, in tribal culture everywhere in the world, ethics
are confined to the clan itself. Everything outside the clan is enemy
territory."

"I have been following this trend for years. The clans
now feel so strong that they are attacking the authority of the state
and the police. They have nothing but contempt for the judiciary.... The
main problem in dealing with clans: state institutions give no
resistance. This makes the families more and more aggressive — they
simply have no respect for the authorities...."The state must destroy the clan structures. Strong and well-trained
police officers must be respected on the street. It is a poor example if
clan members are allowed seriously to injure 24 policemen and six
others without having to fear real consequences. In addition, lawyers
and judges must be trained. The courts are issuing feeble judgments
based on a false understanding of multiculturalism and the fear of the
stigma of being branded as racist...."The clans adhere to a religious group, a kind of sect with an
Islamic orientation. The Islamic understanding of their spiritual
leader, Sheikh al-Habashi, who died a few years ago, justifies violence
against unbelievers. He taught that there is only the house of ​​war [Dar al-Harb], which justifies plundering unbelievers and possessing their wives...."

In Berlin, a dozen or more Lebanese clans dominate organized crime in the German capital, according to Die Welt.
They effectively control the districts of Charlottenburg, Kreuzberg,
Moabit, Neukölln and Wedding. The clans are committed to counterfeiting,
dealing in drugs, robbing banks and burglarizing department stores.
Experts estimate that around 9,000 people in Berlin are members of clans.

The clans reject the authority of the German state. Instead, they run
a "parallel justice system" in which disputes are resolved among
themselves with mediators from other crime families. A classified police
report leaked to Bilddescribed
how the clans use cash payments and threats of violence to influence
witnesses whenever German police or prosecutors get involved.

(Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

The clans are now canvassing refugee shelters in search of young and
physically strong men to join their ranks. State Prosecutor Sjors
Kamstra explained:

"The refugees come here with no money. They are shown how
inexpensive money can be obtained very quickly. Poverty makes this
seductive. Many of them cannot speak German and are naturally vulnerable
when they are addressed by someone in their native language. For the
clans, the refugees are welcome newcomers, because they are new here and
are not known to the police."

The clans have also entered the refugee business by buying real
estate and renting those properties to asylum seekers at exorbitant
prices. Focus magazine reported that they are laundering dirty money while at the same time getting paid by the German state to house migrants.

Focus reporters visited
a dilapidated apartment in Berlin in which five Syrian refugees were
accommodated in 20 square meters (215 square feet). On the regular
rental market the apartment would barely have yielded €300 ($335) a
month in rent, but the clan collects around €3,700 ($4,125) per month
from the German state, which pays landlords to house migrants. "Business
with the refugees is now more profitable than drug trafficking," said Heinz Buschkowsky, a former mayor of Neukölln.

The Berlin Criminal Police Office (Landeskriminalamt) confirmed
that "proceeds from criminal offenses, including organized crime, were
invested in real estate by the persons concerned or by third parties."
Tom Schreiber, a member of the Berlin House of Deputies, said the clans
have exposed the moral bankruptcy of the German government: "The state
promotes organized crime with taxpayer money."

"Berlin is lost," said
Michael Kuhr, a well-known Berlin-based security consultant. "These
clan structures have established themselves in all areas of organized
crime. We will never go back to how things were 20 years ago. In
addition, these people are highly dangerous and have lost all respect
for the power of the state."

In Duisburg, a leaked police report revealed
that in the Marxloh district, the streets are effectively controlled by
Lebanese clans that reject the authority of German police. They have
taken over entire streets to carry out illegal business activity. New
migrants from Bulgaria and Romania are contributing to the problems.
Marxloh's streets serve as invisible boundaries between ethnic groups, according to Die Welt. Residents speak of "the Kurdish road" or "the Romanian road."

Police say they are alarmed
by the aggressiveness and brutality of the clans, which are said to
view crime as leisure activity. If police dare to intervene, hundreds of
clan members are mobilized to confront the police. A local woman
interviewed by Deutschlandfunk radio said
she was afraid for her safety: "After dark I would not stand here
because there are a lot of conflicts between foreigners, especially
between Lebanese and Turks."

A 17-page report prepared for the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) revealed
that Lebanese clans in Duisburg divide up neighborhoods in order to
pursue criminal activities. These clans do not recognize the authority
of the police. Their members are males between the ages of 15 and 25 and
"nearly 100%" of them are known to police.

The report also described
the situation in Duisburg's Laar district, where two large Lebanese
families call the shots: "The streets are actually regarded as a
separate territory. Outsiders are physically assaulted, robbed and
harassed. Experience shows that the Lebanese clans can mobilize several
hundred people in a very short period of time by means of a telephone
call."

Peter Biesenbach of the Christian Democrats (CDU) said:
"If this is not a no-go area, then I do not know what is." He has
called for an official inquiry to determine the true scope of the
criminal clans in NRW.

NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger rejected that request because such a study would be politically incorrect:

"Further data collection is not legally permissible. Both
internally and externally, any classification that could be used to
depreciate human beings must be avoided. In this respect, the use of the
term 'family clan' (Familienclan) is forbidden from the police point of view."

In nearby Gelsenkirchen, Kurdish and Lebanese clans are vying
for control of city streets, some of which have become zones that are
off-limits to German authorities. In one incident,
police were patrolling an area in the southern part of the city when
they were suddenly surrounded and physically assaulted by more than 60
members of a clan.

In another incident,
two police officers stopped a driver after he ran a red light. The
driver stepped out of the car and ran away. When police caught up with
him, they were confronted by more than 50 clan members. A 15-year-old
attacked a policeman from behind and strangled him to the point of
unconsciousness.

Senior members of the Gelsenkirchen police department subsequently
held a secret meeting with representatives of three Arab clans in order
to "cultivate social peace between Germans and Lebanese." A leaked
police report revealed
that the clans told Police Chief Ralf Feldmann that "the police cannot
win a war with the Lebanese because we outnumber them." The clan members
added: "This applies to all of Gelsenkirchen, if we so choose."

When Feldman countered that he would dispatch police reinforcements
to disrupt their activities, the clan members laughed in his face and
said: "The government does not have enough money to deploy the numbers
of police necessary to confront the Lebanese." The police report
concluded that German authorities should not harbor any illusions about
the actual balance of power: "The police would be defeated."

Another leaked police report revealed
that the clans are the "executive body of an existing parallel legal
system to self-adjudicate matters between large Kurdish and Lebanese
families in the western Ruhr area." These clans "despise the police and
German courts" and "settle their matters on their own terms."

The Frankfurter Neue Pressereported
that Kurdish, Lebanese and Romanian clans have divided up the
Gelsenkirchen districts of Bismarck, Rotthausen and Ückendorf, including
around the central station, and have "claimed individual streets for
themselves."

Arnold Plickert, the head of the police union in North Rhine-Westphalia, warned:
"Several rival rocker groups, as well as Lebanese, Turkish, Romanian
and Bulgarian clans, are fighting for supremacy of the streets. They
make their own rules; the police have nothing more to say."

In Düsseldorf, two members of a clan brutally assaulted
a 49-year-old woman who witnessed a car accident in the Flingern
district. Her mistake, apparently, was to corroborate the "wrong"
version of what she saw. The Rheinische Postcalled on the German government to fight the clans:

"The threat remains, in particular wherever large
families, mostly immigrants, place the supposed need for the protection
of their loved ones above all else. The readiness for violence is great,
the inhibition threshold is low. The punishment of existing laws hardly
deters anyone."

In Naumburg, police confiscated the driver's license of Ahmed
A., a 21-year-old member of a Syrian clan, during a traffic stop. Almost
immediately, police were surrounded
by a mob of other clan members. The police retreated. The mob then
marched to the police station, which they proceeded to ransack.

Ahmed A., a serial offender whose asylum application was rejected but who remains in Germany, said:
"Lock me up. I have nothing to lose. I am going to put a bullet in the
head of every single police officer. I will make your life feel like
hell. Then I'll just be a cop killer." He also warned
the police officer who seized his license: "I will destroy his life. I
know exactly where he lives." He then explained what he would do to the
officer's wife and daughter. Ahmed A. was allowed to walk free; police
said there were insufficient grounds for his arrest.

Naumburg police have defended their weak response as being due to a
lack of personnel, but regional parliamentarian Daniel Sturm pointed
to the big picture: "We are talking about resistance to the power of
the state." The Interior Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Holger Stahlknecht, said that it appeared as though the Syrian clan had established a "parallel society" in Naumburg. A local newspaper noted that the police's failure to act "sounds like the capitulation of the state of law (Rechtsstaat)."

In Mülheim, around 80 members of two rival clans got into a mass brawl
following a dispute between two teenagers. When police arrived, they
were attacked with bottles and stones. More than 100 police backed up by
helicopters were deployed to restore order. Five people were taken into
custody but then released.

In Munich, police arrested
20 female members of a Croatian clan believed to be responsible for up
to 20% of all the burglaries committed in Germany. Investigators believe
that the clan has at least 500 members throughout Germany.

In Bremen, police effectively surrendered
to clans from Kurdistan and the Balkans because of the need to conserve
limited personnel resources for the fight against spiraling street
crime by migrant youths.

Rainer Wendt, head of the German Police Union (DPolG), criticized
city officials for their lack of resolve. "Bremen has capitulated to
extremely dangerous clans. The state's monopoly of the legitimate use of
physical force [Gewaltmonopol des Staates] is now becoming the law of the jungle. Security continues to go down the drain."